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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Computer Ads
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Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 11:02:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  1 11:02:00 1983
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One the best non-sexist TV commercials lately is the Xerox ad 
using the rotating mirrored ball of a dance hall to describe
how laser printers work--a remarkably apt analogy.  Towards the
end, the narrator muses on how such a crazy image could lead to
such a sophisticated product.  He finishes with an apocryphal
quote from one of Xerox' scientists, who just happens to be a
woman.  I thought it sounded wonderfully natural and unforced,
and delightfully subversive as only the truth can be.

/Steve Dyer
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